Results tagged “Survey Says”

Dr. Shane R. Jimerson of the University of California at Santa Barbara, seems to
have spent a considerable portion of his professional life studying the
companion issues of grade retention and social promotion to see if
either approach is better than the other in helping to assure ultimate
student success. After a cursory view of the data he has gathered on
his website, one comes to the conclusion that there is not a nickels
worth of difference between the two failed approaches that have shown
little or no success over the years in turning around students who for
one reason or another have been allowed to fall behind their peer group
in school without appropriate intervention. Professor Jimerson,
"encourages researchers, educational professionals, and legislators to
abandon the debate regarding social promotion and grade retention in
favor of a more productive course of action in the new millennium."